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formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)

Under labor law, the clergy can be required to uphold the beliefs of the religion they have chosen.

clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)

clergy = group of religious leaders

The church is not the stone building nor even the clergy and their dogmas.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)

"I am a clergyman," he said; "and the clergy are often appealed to about odd matters."
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)

Cesar was surprised to hear a member of the clergy saying such things.
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game

clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)

Duc is an ordained member of the Buddhist clergy, a monastic who lives a meditative life of poverty.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy

clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)

Padre de Jesus and Brother Daniel had been down in the capital throughout July conferring with other clergy.
Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies

clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)

He had appealed to the clergy to recognize slavery as a sin, and urged all legislators, "ye advocates for American liberty," to work for the liberty of blacks as well.
David McCullough -- John Adams

clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)

The funeral directors were not merely men selling a commodity; other than clergy, they were the ones most intimately in touch with the townspeople in their times of sorrow and need.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers

clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)

I just don't know what's happening to the clergy these days.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)

Mark and Jim met the clergy at Gilford village.
Margaret Craven -- I Heard the Owl Call My Name

clergy = formal religious leadership (in Christianity)

And from then on they launched a series of drive-by shootings and bombings, usually directed at local officials and pro-government clergy.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor

clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)

They ran the three churches to which they belonged, the clergy, the choirs and the parishioners.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind

clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)

She was looking clean as clergy.
Robert Newton Peck -- A Day No Pigs Would Die

clergy = religious leaders

And he has also left other directions which the clergy of the village say should not and must not be obeyed because they savour of paganism.
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote

clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)

"Ay, that's true," said Mr. Tulliver, almost convinced now that the clergy must be the best of schoolmasters.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss

clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)

Many of their leaders were in fact members of the Protestant clergy who believed that enslaving fellow human beings was a sin and an abomination unto the Lord.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad

clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)

It is not there that respectable people of any denomination can do most good; and it certainly is not there that the influence of the clergy can be most felt.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)

clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)

If there had been a huge crowd yesterday, today's hearing had brought more people, including several clergy members and older people of color I'd never seen before.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy

clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)

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